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- - - - In Europe, tea and spices were in high demand.
      - India produced these so Queen Elizabeth I of england sent merchants to start a trading company in India, the British East India Company.
      - It controlled all trade between England and Asia.
    - - The company traded mainly with India, buying cheap cotton cloth, silk, sugar, and spices, which they sold for a lot of money.
      - The Mughal Emperors
        
        They allowed the British to build factories in Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta, and as more British merchants moved to live nearby, these areas became colonies.
  - - - As the Mughal Empire continued to decline, they began to grow more powerful and established their own Maratha Empire in 1674.
      - After the death of the last Mughal emperor with real power,
        the Marathas easily took control of most of northern India.
        
        They didn't have an emperor, they had several peshwas (chief ministers) who ruled over different areas.
        
        This weakened the power of the Maratha Empire, making it easier for the British population to take control.
        
        There was a lot of trouble between the British and the Governor of Bengal, Siraj al Dawlah. The tension led to the Battle of Plassey in 1757.
        
        The British defeated Siraj al-Dawlah's army. This victory led to the expansion of British rule in India.
      - They were Hindu warriors who were at war with the Mughals.
      - In 1775, there was a power struggle between the Peshwas and the British East India Company.
        
        This British interference in Maratha affairs led to the first of three Anglo-Maratha wars.
        
        In the third war, in 1818, the British defeated the Marathas. British rule was stronger and they influenced the daily life of India.
        
        Because the British needed more resources they continued to fight. They conquered territory and their empire grew.
        
        Queen Victoria finally realized that a trading company could not run an empire, and in 1858, she made India part of the British Empire.
  - - - In 1915, he became president of the Indian National Congress founded to fight British rule in India.
      - He led the fight for freedom and believed in ahimsa, the practice of monastic violence, and used it in the fight for independence.
      - In 1919, the British government passed a law that allowed them to silence the press and imprison political activists without trial. Things got worse when hundreds of innocent Indian civilians were slaughtered at political rallies.
        
        Gandhi's response was to create the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1920, to continue the fight for Indian independence.
        
        This movement was one of Gandhi's first organized acts of civil disobedience.
      - April 5, 1930. When Gahandi collected salt from the ground, the British saw it as a crime, Indians were supposed to buy salt from them, not take it for free. Gandhi was sent to prison for this.
      - In 1942, Gandhi started the Quit-India Movement, which called for an end to British rule over India.
        
        Fighting began between Muslims and Hindus, leading to the Indian Independence Act in 1947, by which the United Kingdom divided British India into two new independent dominions, India and Pakistan.
        
        In the end, Gandhi achieved his goal, the British flag was lowered and India became independent.
        
        In the end, Gandhi achieved his goal, the British flag was lowered and India became independent.
        
        Unfortunately, after a long time, four wars were fought between India and Pakistan between 1947 and 1999, mainly due to territorial conflicts
        
        on January 30, 1948, Mahatma Gandhi, was assassinated in New Delhi by a Hindu fanatic.